Everard is a ruddy-faced, squat man with a bushy reddish-brown beard and squinty eyes. He makes up for his shortness by shouting often. After the death of his son, Jamie, and the disappearing of his wife, Everard grew only more dour. He forced his youngest son, Beacher, into the military in the hopes that one of his sons would make something of himself.

He now lives above the bakery with Peyton, the only one of his children still living at home.